Bøker av J. Aldric Gaudet

The StoryHamlet is refused permission by his uncle, the King, to return to University.His love, Ophelia, is glad they will have more time together to help him get over his father's sudden death and his mother's sudden marriage. Instead, her brother warns her to stay away from Hamlet, then her father tries to reason with her, finally ordering her to cease all contact.The ghost of Hamlet's father tasks him with a revenge murder which puts Hamlet in a tailspin.Ophelia hears rumors that Hamlet has gone mad and a brief visit confirms it. She wonders, with some hope, that it is because they have been kept apart and agrees to help her father and the King spy on them so she can talk to Hamlet. During the meeting she and the King realize his madness has nothing to do with love.The arrival of travelling players gives Hamlet the idea of using a play to prove the guilt of the King. Emboldened by certainty, Hamlet comes across the King unprotected but will not slay him at prayer. He continues on to his mother and berates her for bedding his uncle, then discovers someone hiding in the room and kills him. The spy is Ophelia's father and her tenuous hold on reality begins to crumble.When Hamlet is sent away Ophelia has nothing left but flowers in her life. It is not enough.At sea, Hamlet discovers his companions hold a royal command for his execution. He changes the names and escapes. Horatio meets him back on shore with rough clothes and they walk back to the castle. Passing a graveyard they come across Ophelia's burial. Hamlet despairs and fights her brother Laertes at the grave claiming his love is stronger.The King takes Laertes aside to plot the murder of Hamlet during a sporting duel.It ends tragically for all involved.Read HAMLET DECIPHERED first, then enjoy the poetry.

The PIPER is a darkly twisted re-rendering of the Pied Piper legend, set in a post-apocalyptic landscape: The Future Past. The Piper commands an army of vicious dogs to rid the burgeoning village of mutant rats, and when shortchanged uses the dogs to herd the children on a march to his slave ship, after leaving the village in flames. Only 5 mounted rescuers can be spared from firefighting. 3 are eliminated in an ambush, leaving a widower trying to save his estranged son, and the village's sharpshooter midwife trying to save them all. The story is told through the eyes of a father and son. The boy is struggling to manhood while they both suffer the pangs of their wife/mother's suicide years earlier. The unusual behaviour of the rats is explained in the end by a disturbing revelation.

A king's daughter goes against her father's wishes and marries a lowborn gentleman instead of her oafish step-brother. The angry king banishes the husband from Britain so the marriage can be annulled. While the s husband waits in exile in Rome he is drawn into a heated discussion in defence of her honour and matches a wager made against her fidelity. Shown false proof by the cheat who made the wager, the despairing husband sends orders to his servant in Britain to murder princess Imogen for her infidelity. The servant, knowing her innocence, provides a plan for her to masquerade as a boy page to travel to Wales where she can hitch a ride to Rome. Meanwhile the step-oaf forces the servant to reveal Imogen's destination and he races after her, determined to ravage and humiliate her, then drag her back to court. What none of them count on is that actions taken years previously interfere with their plans.